Sting for Consultancy and Design

National Network
Egypt
Address

10 road 107, maadi
po box 11431
Cairo
Egypt

Telephone
0225283535
Telephone (other)
0225285137
Fax
0225283535
E-Mail
m.saleh@stingco.com
Organisation Type
Private Company
Year of Establishment
2012
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. Democracy and community development
  3. Gender
  4. Human rights
  5. International/Cultural relations
  6. Others
  7. Youth and education
General Information
Sting for Consultancy and Design is a social enterprise, located in Maadi, Cairo. Sting employs 10 full time staff members and 2 part time consultants. Beside the staff, Sting also coordinates more than 30 volunteers. Sting has cooperated with different organizations and agencies, mainly British Council, Care International, Save the Children, Catholic Relief Service (CRS) and UNHCR. Sting provides services for fees for national and international organizations in addition to receiving funding for project management. The services carried out by Sting include but are not limited of; consultancy services, project design, implementation and management as well as training, TOT and development of training manuals. The annual turnover in 2015 slightly exceeded 1.0 million which is equivalent to 125.000 EUR.
Mission and Objectives

Sting´s mission is to help people realize and utilize their full potential and cultivate sustainable change on a personal, professional and social level and thereby improve standards of living. With a state of the art approach and non-formal education at the heart, our team at Sting has a passion for promoting participatory development and urge to adopt new, different and creative development approaches that are responsive to the changeably nature of civil society.  We seek to make a difference in the lives of the participants as well as in the societies that we work within.
Our philosophy being; participation towards fostering partnership with all possible stakeholders and linking them to participatory processes, tools and techniques that re-innovate the practice of development in its entirety.

Main Projects / Activities

Sting for Consultancy and Design are specializing in the areas of Empowering Women; such as women leadership building, Empowering youth; through training in active citizenship and dialogue, and Integration of Refugees; such as projects evolving around intercultural exchange, dialogue and peaceful co-existing. Furthermore Sting has experience in training, TOT and training manual development.
Examples of our main projects at the moment are:
Different and Equal: As part of the British Council’s Active Citizens Programme, The Different and Equal Project aims to promote the culture of dialogue, diversity, tolerance, coexistence, and peace among youth in the Egyptian society. As part of the project's implementation strategy, a model of multiplesectoral partnerships was created between Sting, the British Council, the Ministry of Youth, and youth initiatives that work on promoting effective dialogue, peace building, and reconciliation. In order to achieve the project’s objectives, Sting for Consultancy design a training module on promoting dialogue and intercultural diversity that is being delivered in two forms: firstly, residential 5-day youth camp, and secondly, 3-day cascade workshop. The camps and the cascade workshops are followed by youth social actions to promote the project’s cause. Social Actions are fully implemented by youth participating in the project and mentored by the Project’s team members.
Client: British Council
NilFurat: Project aiming at the economic empowerment of 70 refugee and host community women through a business model of a labeled product which is controlled in quality. The project engaged Egyptian master craftsmen in quilting to create a modernized product through a refined blend of refugees’ stories, drawings and traditional materials. It is intended that the product will bring together skills, symbols, traditional craftsmanship, stories and tools of expression of Egyptians and refugees in Egypt. The process of interaction, expression through art and production stimulated inter-cultural dialogue. It further gave necessary recognition of individuality and heterogeneity which are capable of cross-cultural communication.
Client: UNHCR
Besides the projects Sting participates in Erasmus+ youth mobility projects implemented by partners in the EU.  Sting also got accredited in March 2015 to host and send volunteers as part of the European Volunteer Services Program under the Erasmus+ program.

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

STING shares ALF and the National Network´s vision on building dialogue, understanding and exchange as tools in our work towards development and peaceful coexistence. We believe that through interaction and dialogue between different societies, cultures and classes, we can create stronger and lasting relations, which can contribute to improvement on all levels of society, national as well as international. We value our partners and respect the partnerships we create together as we are seeking to establish long lasting relations to partners, where we together can create projects, which reach their full potential.  We believe that partnership is powership and one of the main objectives in joining the network is to cultivate lasting relations with likeminded organizations that work in similar fields.
Involvement is essential to meet one another, engage in dialogue and reach full understanding between the different parties, therefore participation is a strong keyword in the projects we adopt and we engage fully within the communities of the projects as well as in our partnerships. Because of this we have establish a strong network, which includes the communities within we have implemented project, partners, trainers etc. Sting´s network is definitely a strong asset that we cherish and care for.
Furthermore Sting has experience in project enhancing cultural exchange, integration, development and peaceful coexisting and pool of devoted volunteers, who help in different activities of Sting. The volunteers all have in common that they share Sting´s passion for social development.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

We believe that partnership is powership and one of the main objectives in joining the network is to cultivate lasting relations with likeminded organizations that work in similar fields.
We wish to be part of an international network, which we in partnership can create intercultural communication, partnerships and coexistence, as well as exchange experiences and build new relations.

Contact (1) Full Name
Stine Nørtoft
Job Title
Program Specialist
Head of the organisation
Manal Saleh
Contact (2) Full Name
Manal Saleh
Job Title (2)
Program Director